Get Creative! Video Lecture | Understanding Copyright and Fair Use for Education - Self Help Learning

these are Jack and Meg white also known
as the white stripes they're a band from
Detroit
they make rock and roll without a bass
guitarist this is Steve McDonald of the
veteran band red cross Steve thought the
white stripes could use a bass player so
he appointed himself he took the white
stripes album called white blood cells
and we recorded it laying a bass track
down on every song then he released the
results as mp3s on Red Cross's website
he even made up a new album cover and
title red blood cells McDonald began
putting these copyrighted songs online
without permission from the White
Stripes or their record label during the
project he bumped into Jack White who
gave him spoken assent to continue it
can be that easy when you skip the
intermediaries a collaboration across
space and time creative co-authorship
with people you've never met standing on
the shoulders of your peers it's what
the internet is all about it can be that
easy when you skip the intermediaries
but couldn't it be easier still not many
of us are liable just to bump into jack
white and get the green light and he's
not going to let just anyone play the
bass over his songs in any case but what
about other artists who might want you
or me to play along shouldn't we be able
to if they don't mind enter one of the
Internet's most famous citizens a face
for me to the world over a public
identity rivaled only by a handful of
corporate giants and global superstars
the
copyright see everyone knows what Big C
stands for Big C means all rights
reserved Big C means ask permission Big
C protects copyright owners and notifies
the rest of us of their ownership time
was when you had to put Big C on
anything you wanted to copyright or else
it entered the public domain the Commons
of information where nothing is owned
and all is permitted you had to put the
world on notice to warn them that was
big C's job and it was a useful one what
changed the law by the late 1980s US law
had changed so that works become
copyrighted automatically the moment
they're made the moment you hit save on
that research paper the second the
shutter snaps closed the instant you
lift your PIN from that cocktail napkin
doodle your creation is copyrighted but
the Big C makes a cameo or not so
suddenly there's no quick way of knowing
whether something's owned or not the new
rules may be clear about how you get to
own a work you don't have to do anything
but they say nothing at all about how
you should go about announcing that you
want to allow certain uses of your work
so what well if you're a digital
filmmaker who's every frame must be
cleared by an army of lawyers before
making the cut what if you're in a band
whose label won't let you put a song on
a file-sharing Network or if you're a
professor trying to put together online
course materials or if you're a DJ
chasing down permission to use every
snippet of song in your sonic collage if
you're one of these people then you know
so what we interrupt this brainstorm to
call the lawyers you drop what you're
doing and call all the lawyers you ask
for permission II
new author doesn't mind if you use it
because you have no idea what the
author's intent is you asked for
permission even to share some of your
rights or you venture forward unsure
what your risks and rights are exactly
or in a haze of legal doubt you do
nothing the bottom line Big C is out of
a job the middlemen are not enter
creative commons Creative Commons wanted
to find an easy way to help people tell
the world upfront that they want to
allow some uses of their work we call
the experts the US Copyright Office for
advice their response there's no real
answer get creative so we got creative
how our CC brand marks works that are
governed by Creative Commons licenses a
set of standardized copyright licenses
available free of charge on our website
we wrote these licenses so that lawyers
and courts could read them then we
translated them into the language you
can read and then we translated them
into a language computer school now CC
isn't meant to compete with copyright
but to complement it it allows you to
retain your copyright while granting the
world permission to make certain uses of
it upon certain conditions if the Big C
is like a red light then CC is a green
light if the Big C says no trespassing
the CC says please come in if the Big C
says all rights reserved
CC says some rights reserved so you can
use the powers of the net to find works
free to share and build upon and to
invite other people to transform or
trade yours
so that you can get creative not only
with what you make how you make it
available
so you can collaborate across space and
time so you can be a co-author with
someone you've never met so you can
stand on the shoulders of your peers all
without asking permission because
permission has already been granted
Creative Commons get creative it's easy
when you skip the intermediate